I’ve been telling everyone I know about The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. It’s a modern-day Walden and full of dense, lyrical, beautiful prose about living in Southern Virginia and contemplating nature. It’s as much about how we observe life and participate in it, and there’s one paragraph that makes my heart sing […]
I am ready to have my husband back.\ I am ready to have strangers out of my house.\ I am ready to have Brian sleep past 4:30 in the morning.\ I am ready to have Max not be sick.
I spent this week at the W3C’s annual technical plenary, which is a week of “discussing” the future of the foundations and future of the web. I spent the first part of the week in the CSS Working Group discussing CSS3 features and CSS2.1 issues. Tuesday evening and Wednesday were spent in the AC meeting […]
I’m in chilly Cambridge, MA this week for the annual W3C Technical Plenary. I’ve spent the last two days in the CSS Working Group discussing the future of things, issues, and debating the relative merits of x vs. y. Now that I have a camera built in to my laptop, I decided to take a […]
The writers’ strike starts tomorrow. Eeeep! I am not sure how long it will last, but let’s prepare anyway: Question: What television shows, available on DVD, are must-see?\ You all know my answer but I am going to post it anyway: Veronica Mars, Season 1. The best season of tv, ever. Don’t tell anyone I […]
I hate potty-training.
Last mustache joke, I promise: Kevin and I were sitting outside on Halloween to pass out candy. At one point a cop car drove past us. Kevin said, “Hey, cops.” I replied, “They’re recruiting. Quick, hide the ‘stache.” And then I giggled like I was full of sugar. Oh wait, maybe I was.
They posted the final tally and I won! I have no idea what the trophy looks like or when it will show up, but expect pictures when it gets here.\ There’s no way I would have won if not for Howard Uman, who sent an e-mail out to about 800 people (no, really, 750 people […]